Discussion of the foreign trade accounting methodology with major partner countries

In order to improve the foreign trade accounting methodology and analysis of mirror statistics, on April 15-16, 2015 a meeting of the experts from the Statistical Agency and the Customs Service was held with the responsible executives of the trade mission of the Russian Federation, the Chinese Embassy and the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey, which are the main trade partners of the Republic of Tajikistan. The meeting was held with the assistance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan.

During the meeting the discussion was mainly focused on the methodology of statistics of foreign trade turnover, the accuracy of statistical information, improvement and exchange of experience on accounting for export and import figures.

It was noted that organization of such meetings is useful for the formation of high-quality official statistics